Dear Mr Douglas Gardner;
Thank you for your swift response and for letting me know that the most of
the articles are licensed under the Creative Commons License.
I understand that Wikinews is a relatively decentralized organization,
which makes defining an e-mail address for a representative a difficult
task.
However, the Google's Play Store policy, require me to include a contact to
the news publisher on the application.
I presume this is mainly for the purpose of giving people a way to handle
fake news, stolen contents, et cetera.
This is why I thought an e-mail address of an administrator would be
sufficient, but I also think any e-mail address of a Wikinews contributor
who are kind enough to respond to this kind of inquiries would also be fine.
Do you recommend that I contact the administrators directory via contact
information listed at the administrators page:
?
Thank you for your support.
Yours sincerely,
Genesis 11 Project Team
On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 3:49 AM Douglas Gardner <douglas(a)chippy.ch> wrote:
Hi there,
The text of English Wikinews is, for the most part, available under the
terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Licence.
That means you do not need explicit permission from anyone in order to use
the content, as long as the terms of the licence are met. This includes
commercial reuse.
For more information see
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use and
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/.
The latest database dump of enwikinews was on 2 December 2022. If you need
news as it happens, you may find use of the Wikimedia API more suited for
your use: see
https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Documentation/Getting_started
and
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/
This mailing list is fairly low-traffic and you may not get a response
from a Wikinews administrator willing to act as a contact for you. Wikinews
administrators don't have additional editorial authority over other users:
they simply happen to be granted access to a few special technical rights,
like deleting pages and being able to block users.
Yours faithfully,
Douglas Gardner
[[User:Microchip08]]
On Fri, 9 Dec 2022, at 6:26 PM, tomoyuki jinno wrote:
Dear Wikinews Volunteers;
I am writing this e-mail to ask for a contact email address or a phone
number for Wikinews as a news publisher. I am also writing this e-mail to
ask for general consent for the articles on the Wikinews to be used on a
mobile application for the purpose of English language education.
I am currently in the process of developing a mobile application for
English Language education. The application presents users with sentences
from a Wikinews article and asks the users to fill in the blanked-out
words. A link to the full article will be shown on the same page, as shown
in the screenshot provided as an attachment to this e-mail. These news
articles will be retrieved from the official Wikimedia dump files provided
at:
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/, hence minimal strain on the Wikinews
site will be expected. I hope the use of the Wikinews articles in the
application will help English language learners learn more efficiently
whilst increasing the exposure and traffic to the articles from Wikinews.
Though no concrete decisions have been made at this stage, it is likely
for the application to be monetized through means of advertisement and
premium features. I also would like to stress that there will be no
monetization conducted by the means of restricting access to certain
Wikinews articles. All users will be able to freely access quizzes
generated from any of the Wikinews articles as we firmly believe that it is
only ethical for us to profit from values that we have provided in
addition, and not from the sole products of volunteers who have contributed
for free. There will also be no use of the Wikinews logo or information
that may give users a false sense of endorsement of the app by the Wikinews
community.
The application is currently in the stage of being reviewed before being
published for an open test in the Google Play Store. However, for it to be
published under a News category, it must provide valid contact information
of the news publisher with at least an e-mail address or a phone number. I
shall think an e-mail address of a Wikinews administrator will be
sufficient for this role.
To summarize, I am asking for informal general consent of the community
for the Wikinews articles to be used in this project, and a contact e-mail
address for Wikinews as a news publisher.
I greatly respect the work done within Wikinews and hope that this project
will have a contributing impact on the Wikinews community. If you have any
queries or issues regarding the project or would like to have an access to
the prototype of the application please contact me at pimts98(a)gmail.com.
I would also be grateful to talk to people who are just interested.
Yours faithfully,
Genesis 11 Project Team
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